Oscars 2023: India’s All That Breathes loses out on Best Documentary Feature trophy

Navalny is a documentary movie that revolves round Russian opposition chief Alexei Navalny and occasions associated to his poisoning. The award was offered to the group of American manufacturing by actor Riz Ahmed and musician Questlove.

All That Breathes revolves across the lives of siblings Mohammad Saud and Nadeem Shehzad, who work out of their derelict basement in Delhi’s Wazirabad, to rescue and deal with injured birds, particularly the black kites. It has been directed by Shaunak Sen.

All That Breathes, a critically-acclaimed movie, beforehand received the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary on the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and the Golden Eye award for the most effective documentary on the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.

This is the second upset for India within the class as final yr Writing With Fire misplaced out to Questlove’s Summer of Soul (Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised). Writing With Fire was the primary Indian function documentary to be nominated for an Academy Award.

Director Daniel Roher’s portrait of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has shadowy operatives, truth-seeking journalists, conspiracy theories, and Soviet-era poisons. It is a movie with apparent political poignance following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Navalny is a media-savvy, anti-corruption campaigner in his mid-40s who has for a few years been a headache for Russian President Vladimir Putin. He’s launched quite a few stories about corruption in Russia and the Putin administration and turn into a well-liked and rallying determine amongst like-minded Russians.

Daniel Roher was in a position to sit down with Navalny throughout his temporary keep in Berlin in 2020 and early 2021 as he was recovering from being poisoned and searching for the reality behind the unsuccessful homicide try.